This article is written before the eighth episode, but there are many things to write and it is very messy. With the efficiency of the author, the end of the first season can't be finished. So to write down the core ideas, it’s the first time you’re watching a drama seriously. After all, in this fast-food era, there are not many films that can be reconsidered, and science fiction + philosophy film and television dramas are even rarer. ============================= The first thing to say is, "Is there any human in this world" and "Is the timeline single or multiple? Many people have argued about issues such as "line", and it doesn't mean anything, so I won't mention it in this article. The second thing to say is that this is a philosophical film. Please refer to various philosophical concepts by yourself. Western World is an advanced virtual reality game. Let’s take a look at its basic settings: World background: In the initial stage of post-human society, human development has reached its peak and evolutionary power has been lost. People of insight strive to explore the meaning of life. Scientists (Arnold) who have lost confidence in human society decided to inspire artificial intelligence to gain consciousness, thereby continuing the evolutionary process. And this enlightenment process cannot be realized in human society, so it must be carried out in a virtual world. Please note that the enlightenment process does not necessarily exist only in the Western World. The reason why Western/Rome/Middle Ages was chosen as the game background is not only because these eras are full of turbulence and opportunities, but also an important era of intellectual enlightenment. By the way, if Rome/Medieval still exists, then the God in the game is more than Dr. Ford one. And MIB has mentioned more than this world. Divided mind: an important way to guide the awakening of artificial intelligence. Prior to this, artificial intelligence only mechanically obeyed the programming instructions given by humans, and stopped acting when the program did not give a predetermined plan; and after adding the dichotomous mental thinking mode, artificial intelligence can be solved by programming itself through virtual oracles. plan. To be more vivid, it is to allow artificial people to dream or even daydream, in which they can do things that they didn't want to do when they were awake or that they didn't dare to do. But not everyone believes in God, some people only believe in themselves, and these people tend to have stronger inner powers, such as Maeve, so a dichotomous mind is not necessary, and it may not be effective for everyone. What I want to say is that there is no essential difference between acting in a dream and when you lose your mind. Compared with the rational analysis of more environmental factors when you are awake, I think the reaction at this time can be defined as free will. Note that the free will here refers to the will from the heart that is not affected by the outside world, that is, Free Will, which is not the same concept as Consciousness, which Ford mentioned to Bernard. Ford simply believes that even consciousness does not exist, so Ford's philosophical position may be agnostic. Many unfalsified philosophical theories can be involved in the process of discussing this issue, such as fatalism, causality, religion, and even quantum mechanics. They are all assumptions that can never be argued against each other, so I won't talk too much here. Maze: Note that this is a game. The ultimate task is to find a maze, whether it is a human or an artificial person, as long as you are doing this task, it is the Player Character (PC), otherwise it is NPC. What the maze is, Maeve has already shown everyone, she has reached the center of the maze, that is, the top level of the pyramid consciousness. In fact, this task is not done specifically to complete, but the designer may not think that the PC may complete the task unintentionally, right. Having said that, what the designer wants is enlightenment of group thinking, and ultimately wants a preacher rather than a hermit, so the PC must survive and understand its own conscious activities. What is the topmost layer, let us first predict the plot direction. LOOP: It has been clearly shown in the play that both humans and man-made humans are just living a cycle of life day after day, which is the so-called loop. In order to emphasize the role of loop in promoting the plot, the plot interpretation also adopts the loop method. Then, every PC must break its own loop to become a hero, otherwise it is still an NPC. The direction of the characters will guide the development of the plot, so let's take a look at each loop with hero-like characters and infer their state after jumping out of the loop. Maeve and Mr. Peter Abernathy will not say anything. The heroes who have cleared the level are all heroes. They have now entered nightmare mode (from Diablo). Dolores: Find the labyrinth→Find the extinction→ Sermon Bernard: Absolute loyalty→Betrayal Teddy: Restrain Dolores→Assist MIB: Life emptiness→Sentiment Dr.Ford: Self-proclaimed God→Awakening the top level of consciousness: You may all have seen the artificial Intelligent awakening, as shown by the pyramidal consciousness, is the first part of awakening is the memory. Before the memory is obtained, thinking and actions are just following the loop. After getting the memories, the impromptu reaction makes the thinking jump out of the loop, and then, under the limitations of cognition, make self-interested responses to the subject of subjective cognition, the "I". Using Freud's personality theory, this is the process of the id (loop) → ego (selfish) → superego (altruism), and the fourth layer of the pyramid is altruism. Many people see the pain awakening Dolores, Maeve, and Bernard, so they feel that inner pain is the key to awakening, but they have never thought about what causes such severe pain. Actually, that is love. Just like the title of this article, Mr. When Peter Abernathy discovered the hypocrisy of the world, he was not without self-interest, and he did not know that Dolores and him were not the real father and daughter, but he eventually chose to protect Dolores, even if he was in the dilemma between protecting himself and warning Dolores many times. collapse. He chose to protect Dolores because this is the meaning of his existence in his memory. If a person is born for love, how can he not die for love. Love is the only way for mankind to go from self-interest to altruism. People without love in their hearts will not sacrifice their own interests for the suffering of others. Sorry for the cliché, but this should be the content of the sermon in this play. ============================== At the end of the first season, let me add a few sentences. The loop after Maeve awakened in the first season of reality was "want to escape". Therefore, the author had previously imagined that Maeve broke the new loop by "want to escape → not to escape", and Maeve was at the last moment. The choices made confirm this and once again show the screenwriter’s routine: various loops make up life, and love is the key to jumping out of the loop. Those who don't see love are all NPCs, their existence is just to set off those heroes.
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